Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

Now this is one of those questions we all find going round our head at 3am in the morning, ok I guess maybe it is just me, well at least it wasn’t about Chickens! What would your answer be to the question in the title? Well I think you should read the new article in [...]

Our school has made it through to the final thirty organisations shortlisted for a global WISE Award. Sponsored by the Qatar Foundation, the WISE Awards recognise outstanding practice and achievement in education and the final winners are invited to the World Innovation Summit for Education, held annually in Qatar’s capital city, Doha. The thirty finalists have [...]

Have you heard the news yet? It is the first really important Ofsted update under the new coalition government. Basically Gove has announced that he is slimming down Ofsted in regards to the SEF and throwing out those “peripheral issues” as he calls them which is understood to include pupils’ well-being and schools’ contribution to [...]

Well many of you who read this blog may follow the tweets that I send out as @chickensaltash. Yes I know some of my tweets are often very random, mostly professional although some slightly personal bizzare ones trickle through such as strange audioboo’s etc. However most of the time I tweet about learning and what [...]

If you are looking for excellent professional development and you want to be inspired by actual fellow classroom practitioners and take many examples of innovative practice back into your own classroom then look no further make sure you get yourself to the 7th UK Innovative Education Forum. In such tough financial times there is increasing [...]

As part of the International Inspiration partnership which is an international project that will reach 12 million children from 20 different countries by 2012 we are partnered for the next few years with the Government Secondary School in Karu, Abuja in Nigeria. We made our visit to the school in March 2010 and recently it [...]

Well it is the start of term for many of you ‘back to school’ it is on all the adverts and there are documentaries and discussions on TV about what it is like for children, parents and teachers. We started back this week with the usual meetings and staff training days. On Friday we had [...]

As part of the International Inspiration partnership which is an international project that will reach 12 million children from 20 different countries by 2012 we are partnered for the next few years with the Government Secondary School in Karu, Abuja in Nigeria. We made our visit to the school in March 2010 and recently it [...]

  I have only just heard about this recently well actually just near the end of the holidays! I think it is a fantastic resource for teachers or others involved in education especially for their professional development. It is basically a weekly online conversation that takes place between 8-9pm at night although you may not [...]

Here is the second part of the NigeriaCornwall post which took place in June this year. As part of the International Inspiration partnership which is an international project that will reach 12 million children from 20 different countries by 2012 we are partnered for the next few years with the Government Secondary School in Karu, [...]